Hapgoods v. Crawford
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, James L. Crawford, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 24th day of January, 1908, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the Hew York Special Term, overruling the defendant’s demurrer to the fourth cause of action in the amended complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J.:
The plaintiff is a business corporation and the action is for slander against it. The fourth cause of action alleged in the complaint, to which the defendant demurred on the ground that it fails *857to state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action, sets forth that the defendant was guilty of slandering the plaintiff in that he said that “ ‘ It (meaning the plaintiff) is composed of a lot of fakirs, robbers, thieves and business pirates, who are devoted to fraudulent practices, and take advantage of men when in their weakest position to extort money from them and give them…
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